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A small group of white nationalists interrupted a conversation with a book Saturday at the Politics and Prose Bookstore in DC during an author-only event for the anti-racist book festival in the store.
A small group of white nationalists interrupted a conversation with a book Saturday at the Politics and Prose Bookstore in DC during an author-only event for the anti-racist book festival in the store.
The interruption took place while author Jonathan Metzl was discussing his book "The Death of Whiteness: How Racial Resentment Kills the Heart of America" at Connecticut Avenue Politics and Prose.
Metzl is professor of psychology and sociology at Vanderbilt University.
A witness at the event told WTOP that while Metzl was talking in front of people attending the festival, a crowd of less than a dozen people – one wearing a megaphone – walked on the stage and was chanting to several people. times "this earth is our land" out of the bookstore in a single file line singing "goal".
A group of "white nationalists" has just interrupted a speech in @ JonathanMetzl about his new book called "Dying of Whitness" at @PoliticsProse. @PoPville pic.twitter.com/nlXRXdAkcX
– Katy Cain (@ KatyCain526) April 27, 2019
The interruption did not last long and no physical contact between the protesters and those present was reported.
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